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Ok ok – I know I have been talking about it for months. But I am finally ready to share with you guys the Lil Man’s nursery. There was a lot of inspiration for this room. It started with a key card from a hotel and ended with what you guys see here today. Part of making this room what it is was this blog – and it helped me find and solidify my major themes and fabric choices to take the base nursery into this! (Warning – picture intensive post to follow!)

Ack!! I love it! Let’s take a spin around the rest of the room. Here is a shot of the dresser/changing table.

And in the other corner – my super comfy chair (that I am sitting in right now!). Of course I had to make a pillow to match. Those are also blackout shades back there in the window – which will come in handy for nap time since this room gets pretty bright!

So – let’s be honest here. The most awesome feature of this whole room are the floating book shelves. I think I did a good job talking the hubby into recreating them from my inspiration room!

How do I love them? Oh I could go on and on – they helped add that pop of bright colors I was looking for while providing functional storage AND hopefully instilling a love of books into the Lil Man’s life for years to come.

Oh let’s throw in one more shot of them – just for fun! I will be back with a tutorial on how to knock these off yourself in the near future! (UPDATE: Tutorial for the floating book shelves is live! Check it out!)

And if you can drag your eyes away from the book wall – I also want to show off our crib!

I am so pleased with how our bedding came out! I made the bumper and the crib skirt myself. And the cute little name sign (which says his real name here at the house – I just put up the blog safe version here!)

If you want to do the same you can see the crib skirt tutorial and I will be back with a bumper tutorial soon! And before I get any haters on the bumper – we aren’t planning on using it until he is actually big enough to be rolling around and “bumping” into things. So don’t stress over that!

And my fantastically crafty MIL Lynn made us this beautiful quilt to match!

And of course – you can’t have a crib without a mobile. Ours happen to be some oversized tissue poms. I love the way they look and I think the Lil Man will appreciate this view! I found tissue paper to match the color scheme at Hobby Lobby. Each one was only 99 cents each to make!

Next to the crib I have my little nightstand that got the makeover last weekend. Perfect for us to put the sound machine and Scentcy nightlight on and stash diapers and other necessities in and under!

And then the changing table! First off – I love how the dresser came out that we stripped and restained – if you haven’t seen the “before and after” you have to check it out. I still can’t believe we got it too look as close as we did to our Restoration Hardware inspiration piece and did it for about $50!

Oh and let me give you a little close up of our “gallery wall”. I am going to be back with a tutorial on how you can make the cute alphabet and owl prints yourself! I also framed some of the fabric from the bumper and found that cute little giraffe at Hobby Lobby in the clearance bin! Of course he didn’t match at first – but a little spray paint and that was taken care of! A matching clock from Target was the perfect final touch! The green in their RE style line of products is the perfect green!

Ok so there are a ton of projects here that you may want to try out yourself. So here is a concise list of each one. If they are missing links – stay tuned – I have a tutorial coming soon. Just make sure you subscribe in email, Google Friend Connect, or a reader so you don’t miss one you are interested in!

I hope you have enjoyed the room tour as much as I enjoyed putting it together. It has been a labor of love over the last 4 months – and I adore how it came out. Now that the nursery is all together I am ok with the Lil Man showing up whenever he would like! Which since we are almost under 2 weeks to go is about perfect timing!! :)

So – what do you think? Have a favorite element? Want to know about something that I didn’t detail in the post? Lemme know your thoughts and questions! I will do my best to answer them!

Oh that is just adorable!!! First, i LOVE the quilt!!! Adorable! Second, I love the chair, and the book rack. i love that it's not all matchy matchy but it all goes together so, so well.......GREAT job!!! Looking forward to more info!Suzanne

Love it!!! I'm 32 weeks prego and am thinking of doing the same type of shelves for books....please hurry and post the how-to soon. I'm in the process of working on the nursery right now. Everything looks so beautiful...I'm envious that you are all done...I still have so much to do.Thanks

Beautiful work, what a fun room for your little guy! I would love to know more about your chair. Is it a glider? What brand? I'm due in July and am struggling with my glider/chair purchase. Thanks so much!

Wow!! Fantastic Lil'Man room!! Of course, you know your readers, and yes, I love, love, LOVE, the floating book wall!! Late on, maybe LM will use the lowest shelves to help him stand up! I am so excited for you -you are all set! (Ha, ha.... your ROOM is all set!) Your changing table is the 2nd one I have seen recently without "guard rails" -not that a parent actually leaves the baby in the middle of a changing & then comes back! Not that I want to "date" myself, or anything.... (Our boys are 13 & 16...) so, changing table style a mere 13 years ago was different! {sigh} ...Had a moment of feeling old there! Whew!! It is gone now. Love the dresser -small changes, deeper stain looks fabulous. Spend as much time as you can in that comfy chair, :) Great room.

Oh My! This is really awesome! I want another baby just so I can recreate this room! Ha Ha, well not really, but you get the idea. The colorful book wall is so inviting and engaging for a little one and will be sure to dray lilman into reading.

Love the colors! I especially like the bookshelves...so cute! I would LOVE if you would link up your project to our {{What I Made Wednesday}} Linky Party...going on now! Thanks and I'm your newest follower! :)

What Lil'Man wouldn't love those digs? The book shelves are awesome!! Quick as a Cricket was my 27 year olds favorite. It is a family gift of ours.Of all of your books I did not see a book from Richard Scarey. You need to get one, he is GREAT!!!Love, Love, Love it!!!

Oh Jess! I don't even know where to begin. I just love everything. You didn't miss a single detail! That book wall is THEE highlight of the room. It brings out so much color. Great job, girl! You rocked it!

You did a super job! I have just started blooging and am Re-inventing Mother.

I have made many crib skirts and love your tutorial. When I make mine, I use a crib size mattress pad ( a cheap one) and cut the elastic edges off. Then you just have a flat pad. The mattress pad stays put on the springs and doesn't slip around.

Love love love this room. Beautiful colors and the quilt is precious! I love the wall of books but one word of caution...the floating shelves are so low that your sweet child one day will be mobile and will use this to climb! You may want to remove several of the shelves once they are getting ready to walk and put them back when they are older.

I know this is an old post! I just was MIA most of the summer due to adopting our third child, he was born the first of june! I'm just getting caught up in the blog world... I noticed the nursery on the "you might like" thumbnails at the bottom. And I was like, oh yah! She was expecting!! The nursery looks fab... I hope you all are adjusting well! I'm still trying to figure out which way is up myself ;)

Okay so I realize this post is pretty old but I still had to comment. We are best friends already! I don't have kids but trust me, I am planning! I love the dark crib. I love the tissue pom poms (and for a boy!??!?! LOVE it!) I love love love love love the book shelf. I love that idea so much I just can't get over it. And you know what else I love? I LOVE that you re-purposed a dresser for the changing table. I just told my husband a couple of months that that is exactly what I plan to do!!

This was super interesting and helpful-- I came in for the pleats in the crib skirt idea but stayed for everything else. I'm also covering a bumper in the next week or so and would love to see you put up that tutorial. Your writing is really clear and easy to follow and the end result looks fantastic. :)

I LOVE this whole nursery. I wish my kids were smaller so I could start over but I may have to steal the book wall idea. I have made the poms before and they are just what you said, easy and cheap! You did an amazing job!!!

Just found this post via Pinterest, and assuming your baby is nearly two now. Just wondering, have there been any issues with him trying to climb the bookshelf wall?

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